The customers of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) can heave slight relief in their February billing, as the power utility firm’s overall rates will be down by P0.0704 per kilowatt hour (kwh) to P8.6703 from last month’s P8.7497 per kwh.
For residential customers in the usage bandwidth of 200-kil
Published February 4, 2021, 7:00 AM
The Department of Energy (DOE) is giving its word that brownouts will not hamstring the anticipated COVID-19 vaccine rollouts in the coming months, so the country can finally sneak away from the reins of the pandemic.
According to Energy Undersecretary Felix William B. Fuentebella, the department is working on a “triple safeguard” at ensuring electricity supply throughout the government-underpinned inoculation program, so vaccine storage as well as administration will not suffer from drawbacks.
Energy Undersecretary Felix William Fuentebella
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Under the targeted set-up during the vaccination program, “there would be three power back-ups,” the energy official said.
Energy Undersecretary Felix William Fuentebella
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According to Department of Energy (DoE) Spokesperson Felix William Fuentebella, the DOE-Electric Power Industry Management Bureau (EPIMB) will be working with the Task Force on Energy Resiliency (TFER) to explore the feasibility of undertaking a “triple safeguard” approach to securing power services in vaccine storage and administration sites.
Fuentebella said this will be similar to the contingencies employed during the 30th SEAG, which the country hosted nearly two weeks in late 2019. As the phrase triple safeguard implies, there would be three power backups under this set up.
“The first line would be coming from the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), the second from the Distribution Utilities, while the third and final back up would be the generators provided by the facility itself or the local government unit (LGU),” explained Fuentebella.
Published February 1, 2021, 2:36 PM
As part of its continuing efforts to help the Filipino people combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) donated test booths and COVID-19 test kits to the local government of Pasay City.
NGCP turned over 50 test booths and 10,000 COVID-19 antibody test kits to Pasay City, through its City Mayor Imelda Calixto-Rubiano.
NGCP turned over 50 test booths and 10,000 COVID-19 antibody test kits to Pasay City, through its City Mayor Imelda Calixto-Rubiano.
“Even with the development and impending availability of vaccines for COVID-19, testing remains a cornerstone strategy to stem the spread of the disease,” said NGCP. The company reiterated its commitment to find ways to help the country, from strengthening power transmission, to doing its part as good corporate citizens in the midst of a global health crisis.
Angelica Y. Yang
AYALA-LED AC Energy Corp. is setting its sights on a new renewable energy goal, this time for 2030 where local and foreign projects will have equal sharing, as it is set to hit its 5-gigawatt (GW) target ahead of the 2025 deadline, its top official said.
“In the next couple of years, you would most likely hear from us regarding our next target. I have no plans of putting another, of revising our 2025 goal,” said AC Energy President and Chief Executive Officer Eric T. Francia in a media briefing on Monday.
“We will most likely set our sights already for 2030, but we’re still going to be calibrating what the right level of renewable target would be,” he added.